Christ is both the only Begotten Son of God and the firstborn Son, and what we announce today is Christ as the Firstborn Son of God for His propagation. He was, is, and always will be the only Begotten Son of God in His Godhead, and He always existed and will always exist as such […]
The Only Begotten Son of God became the Firstborn Son of God in His Resurrection
In Christ’s incarnation He was begotten to be the Son of Man, the unique God-man possessing both divinity and humanity, and in His resurrection He was begotten by God to be the firstborn Son of God in His humanity, the firstborn among many brothers. The One whom we are propagating is not the only begotten […]
The Gospel of the Promise made to the Fathers: a Human Seed becomes the Son of God!
This week we start enjoying and prayerfully considering the matter of, Propagating the Resurrected, Ascended, and All-inclusive Christ as the Development of the Kingdom of God (2018 fall ITERO), and in particular today we want to see the gospel of the promise made to the fathers – the fact that a human seed becomes the […]
The Lord Jesus is the Prototype for the Producing of the many God-men, His Believers
It is really amazing to see how in Christ God and man have become one entity: He is the first God-man, One who is not just man but also God (He has the divine essence) and not only God but also man (He is a man). Jesus Christ was conceived in the womb of a […]
The Ascended Christ as our Divine High Priest is Able to Save us to the Uttermost
In His ascension Christ is the High Priest – He is the kingly High Priest for His ministry and He is the divine High Priest for saving us. As the divine High Priest, Christ is full of life, living, and able to continue His priesthood perpetually; as such a One, He is saving us to […]
The Truth concerning Christ’s Resurrection and its Importance to our Christian Faith
These past two weeks we have reviewed and enjoyed the matter of Christ’s resurrection, not merely in its aspect of Christ being raised from the dead (which is something amazing in itself) but in the aspects of the divine incorporation of the processed Triune God and the regenerated believers in Christ (see John 14-17), and in the […]
In Resurrection Christ was Designated the Son of God in His Humanity to be God’s Firstborn Son
The central thought of the book of Romans is not justification, sanctification, or even glorification, but sonship – God desires to have many sons to bring into glory, and for this Christ Himself as a man in the flesh was designated the Son of God in power in His resurrection (Rom. 1:3-4) to be the […]